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AN: to those reading This story I do not mind if you take the prologue and use it to write your own story, Please alert me if you do so that I know the name of your story. Thank you.

Chapter 1: Crystal Heart of a Witch

february 21st 1949

20 miles north-west of Paris

abandoned barn

Yoshika snapped bolt upright in bed, heart beating in her chest, eyes wide and firing plates primed. Lynette wrapped her arms around her waist and began to whisper into her ear

"It's ok, it's ok, it was just a nightmare, you're safe"

Yoshika shook her head, "It wasn't just a nightmare, it was a memory of when we got our cores"

Lynette's face fell as she too remembered the pain they all went through at the hands of the brotherhood of the black devils. Those people believe that the Neuroi were actually gods disappointed with humanity, and thus felt it necessary to help them end humanity going as far as to sabotage weapons, hijack supply convoys and kidnap/murder witches if they got the chance.

Another problem was that a large number of generals called them abominations for being half Neuroi now, as a result they had been on the run for nearly two years, learning their capabilities as they went. One of the most shocking abilities they had gained was to convert any weapons or equipment into their Neuroi variant. Another ability they had gained was to extend Neuroi armour over their bodies, making them look like human form Neuroi.

Not only were they on the run from the military but also from Neuroi who wanted to use them to kill all the witches on the planet. Unwilling to kill fellow witches, but unable to join them they were left with no choice but to keep on running, but this did not mean that they did not attack the Neuroi in armoured form whenever they got the chance. This led to them being called the shadow witches, due to their attacks being at night and people only getting glimpses of their pitch black forms. Between the Neuroi wanting to use them to kill witches, and the allies wanting to execute them, they were limited in their options.

She looked towards the middle of the warehouse where the wing commander and major Skamoto were carving the final runes for a modified single use tele-porter array. Such arrays were only used to transport small amounts non-living materials normally.

At that moment she heard a sound that she did not want to hear: the sound of land witches and tanks.

Outside the witches of the 58th liberon land witches were giving their equipment a final check before they engage the half-breeds hiding in the old warehouse ahead of them. Their orders were to go in, kill the half-breeds, and get out, simple right? Not so simple when the half-breeds in question were the 501st strike witches, the first and most successful joint fighter wing. Just before they began their attack, the warehouse lit up with enough magic to force them to their knees. When the magic had dissipated, they entered the building with caution. Inside they found recently vacated bunks, empty weapon and striker racks, and a massive modified single-use tele-porter array.

Arcturus station

Mass Effect universe

4 hours post inter-universe jump

6 years pre-first contact

Rear Admiral Hackett stood, looking into the lab where the 11 girls who appeared in the middle of an important meeting of the admirals, were lying unconscious. A cough attracted his attention to a rather confused scientist who had just left the lab.

"Report"

"Well they are the most unusual people I have ever encountered" replied the scientist

"What makes them unusual?"

"What makes them unusual is that half their cells are carbon-based and the other half is silicon-based"

"What!? How is that even possible?"

"Oh you think that is unusual, just you wait till you hear this. Their bodies are giving off an energy signature that we have only just identified as Quantum Energy Waves. And that's not the best part! They are producing immense amounts of Quantum Energy Waves and it appears that they may be able to control it too! On top of that those weird devices that came with them seem to be powered by and amplify QEW"

At that moment a marine called out "Admiral! One of them seems to be coming-to!"

Major Mio Sakamoto groaned as she dragged herself from the depth of unconsciousness, siting upright as she looked around. The room she and the rest of the squadron were in looked like an advanced lab or medical bay. A whooshing noise attracted her attention to a door opening. Looking over her eyes widened as she shot to her feet and saluted the Admiral that had just entered.

"At ease soldier, now tell me how you and your friends ended up in a secure meeting room, with world war 2 era weapons, unknown machines and why half your cellular structure is silicon-based."

"So let me get this straight," Hackett really wanted to rub his temples "the lot of you are from a variant of earth were in stead of two world wars you had two invasions by an alien race you call the Neuroi, the only counter for which were witches like you. The problem was that witches usually stop being combat capable around twenty, resulting in a recruitment age of around ten to eleven."

"Thats correct." Minna replied from her place at the conference table.

"I'm so glad that we managed to keep this quiet." he mumbled under his breath before continuing "the reason you fled was because a group of mad men forcefully implanted you with Neuroi tissue making you half-human, half-neuroi resulting in most of the command structure despising you on principle."

"yes sir"

"Alright, for now the lot of you are classified as refugees and your existence is top-secret."

"Understood." she replied nodding

"Now that the ease part is over comes the had part."

"Hard part, sir?"

"the paper work."